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35k for a 40hr work week comes out to only $16.80 an hour. Just saying.
To be fair, for at least the first couple years, your cost-of-living expenses are also essentially zero if you're single, since you'll be staying in the barracks and eating in the mess hall without having to pay anything out of pocket. So that $35k stretches a lot further than it would outside the military.
You also don't have much time to spend it because they keep you pretty busy. In addition there are tons of other perqs. Looking back I'm disappointed I didn't join. You get retirement very early, and you can start other jobs that you wouldn't have the opportunity for otherwise.
I didn't want to get yelled at. That was what kept me out. Now that I get what that was about I think I could have done it for the required six weeks.